Shanti Parva

हिन्दी अर्थ

अविनाशी हैं, मैं इनकी व्याख्या आरम्भ करता हूँ शृणुष्वैकमना वत्स गद्दरं होतदन्तरम्

English

" YUDHISHTHIRA SAID, 'THOU hast, O grandsire, discoursed upon the auspicious duties (of person in distress) connected with the duties of kings. It behoveth thee now, O king, to tell me those foremost of duties which belong to those who lead the (four) modes of life.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

क्षेत्रज्ञ तं विजानीयान्नित्यं योगजितात्मकम्

English

[Kapila said:] "This body acts so, and in the Veda it makes a form; the brahmana whose body has been purified by rites becomes a vessel.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋषिस्तत्पूजयन् वाक्यं पुत्रस्यामिततेजस: अकामद्वेषसंयुक्त: स परत्र विधीयते

English

I tell you of him who pursues the endless by action: without tradition, without legend, direct, with the world as witness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स एवं गुरवे प्रीतिमुपहत्य यथाबलम्

English

Those who spread out sacrifices as "dharma" alone, without hope, renouncing what has arisen, ungreedy, as if earned by compassion and freedom from envy: this is the road of wealth, in giving at holy places.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और पशुहिंसा न करे, क्योंकि यह अनर्थमूलक है गृहस्थ पुरुष दिनमें कभी न सोये। रातके पहले और पिछले भागमें भी नींद न ले

English

Not depending on action as a womb, sinful deeds at times, perfected by mental intention, of purified settled knowledge,

हिन्दी अर्थ

नास्यानश्रन् गृहे विप्रो वसेत् कश्चिदपूजित:

English

not angry, not envious, without ego or malice, devoted to knowledge, thrice-white, intent on the good of all beings:

हिन्दी अर्थ

आदर-सत्कार और भोजन पाये बिना न रह जाय वेदविद्याव्रतस्नाता: श्रोत्रिया वेदपारगा:

English

householders were mostly such, not departing from their own duties, and kings joined in this way, and brahmanas by rule.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेषां हव्यं च कव्यं चाप्यर्हणार्थ विधीयते

English

Equal, endowed with honesty, content, resolved in knowledge, with dharma visible, pure, faithful toward higher and lower,

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपविद्धानग्निहोत्रस्य गुरोर्वालीककारिण: तथैवापचमाने भ्य: प्रदेयं गृहमेधिना

English

with selves formed before, who had duly practised their vows, they practised dharma even in hardship and gathered in difficult places.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्याका तारतम्यविषयक प्रश्न मेरे लिये क्लेशदायक है

English

"Bhishma said, 'Religion hath many doors. The observance of (the duties prescribed by) religion can never be futile. Duties have been laid down with respect to every mode of life. (The fruits of those duties are invisible, being attainable in the next world.) The fruits, however, of Penance directed towards the soul are obtainable in this world, l Whatever be the object to which one devotes oneself, that object, O Bharata, and nothing else, appears to one as the highest of acquisitions fraught with the greatest of blessings. When one reflects properly (one's heart being purified by such reflection), one comes to know that the things of this world are as valueless as straw. Without doubt, one is then freed from attachment in respect of those things. When the world, O Yudhishthira, which is full of defects, is so constituted, every man of intelligence should strive for the attainment of the emancipation of his soul.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रवृत्तिलक्षणो धर्मो निवृत्ती च सुभाषित: तस्मात् कर्म न कुर्वन्ति यतय: पारदर्शिन:

English

"Yudhishthira said, 'Tell me, O grandsire, by what frame of soul should one kill one's grief when one loses one's wealth, or when one's wife, or son, or sire, dies.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्यया जायते नित्यमव्यक्त हाव्ययात्मकम्

English

"Bhishma said, 'When one's wealth is lost, or one's wife or son or sire is dead, one certainly says to oneself 'Alas, this is a great sorrow!' But then one should, by the aid of reflection, seek to kill that sorrow. In this connection is cited the old story of the speech that a regenerate friend of his, coming to Senajit's court, made to that king. Beholding the monarch agitated with grief and burning with sorrow on account of the death of his son, the

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेन ते देहजालानि रमयन्त उपासते आनन्द मानकर उनका सेवन करते हैं

English

Since such were the brahmanas of old, carriers of sacrifice, aged in the three Vedas, pure, well-conducted and renowned, wise, sacrificing day by day, without hope or bonds,

हिन्दी अर्थ

न ते कर्म प्रशंसन्ति कूपं नद्यां पिबन्निव

English

for them sacrifices, Vedas and deeds were as the tradition, as the seasons, as intentions according to their vows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विद्यया तदवाप्रोति यत्र गत्वा न शोचति न पुनर्जयते यत्र यत्र गत्वा न वर्तते

English

For those who had shed desire and anger, by nature trained in self, honest, constant in calm, standing in their own duties, all was endless: so we have the eternal scripture.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समा: सर्वत्र मैत्राश्न सर्वभूतहिते रता:

English

For those of undismayed goodness, doers of hard conduct, covered by their own deeds, the dreadfulness of austerity came about.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मानते हैं और समस्त प्राणियोंके हितमें तत्पर रहते हैं विद्धि चन्द्रमसं दर्शे सूक्ष्म्या कलया स्थितम्

English

That good conduct, wonderful, ancient, eternal and firm, was indicated in the dharmas for those unable to practise it at all.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नवजं शशिन दृष्टवा वक्रतन्तुमिवाम्बरे

English

Dharma without calamity, conduct, heedfulness and non-defeat, among all classes: among them there was no transgression.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मूर्तिमानिति तं विद्धि तात कर्मगुणात्मकम् चन्द्रमाके समान वृद्धि और हासका भागी होनेवाला समझो

English

Those bulls among men took refuge in one four-footed dharma; the good, having duly reached it, go to the highest goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चित्तको वशमें किया है, उस आत्मतत्त्वको तुम सहैव क्षेत्रज्ष समझो जीवमात्मगुणं विद्यादात्मानं परमात्मन:

English

Some, leaving their homes, resorted to the forest; others, resorting to the home alone; and others, celibate students.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुद्ध्यैश्वर्यातिसगोंयं प्रधानश्वात्मन: श्रुतम्

English

Brahmanas know this fourfold dharma of stages; the endless seat of Brahman is the settled meaning of the word brahmana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मैंने पहले सुन लिया है यया सन्त: प्रवर्तन्ते तदिच्छाम्यनुवर्तितुम्

English

Therefore such brahmanas of old, who practised dharma, are seen in heaven as twice-born become lights.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कथमेतद् विजानीयां तच्च व्याख्यातुमरहसि

English

Like stars in their places, many hosts of stars, they have reached the endless through contentment: so the Vedic.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समझू? जिससे इनका विरोध हट जाय। आप इस विषयकी व्याख्या करें कृत्वा बुद्धि विमुक्तात्मा द्रक्ष्याम्पात्मानमव्ययम्

English

If such come back to the world, in a womb again, they are never stained by sinful deeds, not by action as a womb.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अभिमान त्यागकर अपने अविनाशीस्वरूप परमात्माका दर्शन करूँगा

English

One so joined may be a brahmana; another may be a brahmana in name; action alone, good or bad, they say, belongs to man.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एषा पूर्वतरै: सद्धिराचीर्णा परमर्षिभि: पुण्यायतनचारी च भूतानामविहिंसक:

English

So, for those whose astringency is ripened, by endless learning, all was endless: so we have the eternal scripture.

हिन्दी अर्थ

काले प्राप्ते चरन् भैक्ष्यं कल्पते ब्रह्म भूयसे

English

For them, craving gone, cleansed, of good self, the fourth, the dharma of the Upanishads, is held common.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संन्यासी ब्रह्मभावको प्राप्त होनेमें समर्थ होता है अरण्ये विचरैकाकी येन केनचिदाशित:

English

It is ever practised by the perfected brahmanas of controlled self, rooted in contentment, of the nature of renunciation, called based on knowledge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रमाणे वाप्रमाणे च विरुद्धे शास्त्रता कुत:

English

The ascetic's eternal dharma, whose goal is liberation, is practised as common or sole according to strength.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एतामारुहा निःश्रेणीं ब्रह्मलोके महीयते

English

As one goes and goes, the weak sinks in it; seeking the seat of Brahman, the pure one is freed from the world."

हिन्दी अर्थ

गुरौ वा गुरुपुत्रे वा वसेद् धर्मार्थकोविद: यच्च शिष्येण कर्तव्यं कार्य दासेन वा पुन:

English

[Syumarashmi said:] "Of those who enjoy, those who give, who sacrifice, who study, those who by means gained by dharma, or those who rely on renunciation,

हिन्दी अर्थ

किंकर: सर्वकारी स्यात् सर्वकर्मसु कोविद:

English

which of these, after death, is the best conqueror of heaven? Tell me that, brahmana, as I ask truly."

हिन्दी अर्थ

रहे और सभी कर्मोके सम्पादनमें कुशल हो दक्षिणो5नपवादी स्यादाहूतो गुरुमाश्रयेत्

English

[Kapila said:] "All good possessions and the good fortunes that arise from virtue are not the happiness reached by renunciation; you too see this."

हिन्दी अर्थ

कोई कलंक न लगावे। गुरुके बुलानेपर झट उनकी सेवामें उपस्थित हो जाय

English

[Syumarashmi said:] "You are devoted to knowledge, we householders resolved on action; of all stages the end is said to be one."

हिन्दी अर्थ

चक्षुषा गुरुमव्यग्रो निरीक्षेत जितेन्द्रिय: नातिष्ठति तथा55सीत नासुप्ते प्रस्वपेत च

English

In oneness and in separateness no other difference is told; let the blessed one tell me that rightly and properly."

हिन्दी अर्थ

इदं करिष्ये भगवन्निदं चापि कृतं मया

English

[Kapila said:] "Actions are the ripening of the body, but knowledge is the highest goal; when astringency is ripened, vomiting does not remain in the knowledge of taste.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पढ़ावें। मैंने अमुक काम पूरा कर लिया है और यह अमुक कार्य अभी करूँगा इति सर्वमनुज्ञाप्य निवेद्य च यथाविधि

English

Non-cruelty, forbearance, peace, non-violence, truth, honesty, non-malice, no pride, modesty, patience and self-control:

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्मका निश्चय है

English

these are the paths of Brahman; by them one reaches the supreme; the learned man should understand by mind the settled rule of action.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ये केचिद् विस्तरेणोक्ता नियमा ब्रह्मचारिण: वह पालन करे तथा सदा गुरुके समीप ही रहे

English

The goal which brahmanas, calm on every side, pure, resolved in knowledge, content, reach: they call it the highest goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वेदव्रतोपवासेन चतुर्थे चायुषो गते गुरवे दक्षिणां दत्वा समावर्त्तेद्ू यथाविधि

English

Having known the Vedas and what is to be known, as it stands, thus they call a Veda-knower; another is a mere seed-keeper.

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्वितीयमायुषो भागं गृहमेधी भवेद् व्रती

English

The Veda-knowers know all; all is established in the Veda; for in the Veda is the end of everything, of whatever is and is not."

हिन्दी अर्थ

धर्मलब्धैर्युतो दारैरग्नीनाहृत्य सुव्रत: कुसूलधान्य: प्रथम: कुम्भधान्यस्त्वनन्तरम्

English

This alone is the end of all, whatever is and is not; for one who knows its end, middle, being and non-being.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तेषां पर: परो ज्यायान् धर्मतो धर्मजित्तम:

English

"Total renunciation," "peace," "contentment": so it is settled; the good here is established in liberation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्वाभ्यामेकश्षतुर्थस्तु ब्रह्मसत्रे व्यवस्थित: (वेदाध्ययन) करना उचित है

English

The right, the true, the known and the knowable, the self of all, the moving and the unmoving, all happiness, the auspicious and the highest, Brahman, the unmanifest, the origin and the imperishable:

हिन्दी अर्थ

नात्मार्थे पाचयेदन्नं न वृथा घातयेत् पशून्

English

radiance, forbearance, peace, freedom from disease, the auspicious, space likewise eternal and firm: it is reached by these words with the eyes of intellect; honour to that Brahman, to the brahmana."

हिन्दी अर्थ

अमृतं यज्ञशेषं स्थाद् भोजनं हविषा समम्

English

Brahmana addressed that ruler of very cheerless heart and said these words, 'Why art thou stupefied? Thou art without any intelligence. Thyself an object of grief, why dost thou grieve (for others)? A few days hence others will grieve for thee, and in their turn they will be grieved for by others. Thyself, myself, and others who wait upon thee, O king, shall all go to that place whence all of us have

हिन्दी अर्थ

यस्मिंश्वैते वसन्त्यहस्तिद् राष्ट्रमभिवर्धते गृहस्थवृत्तीक्षाप्येता वर्तयेद् यो गतव्यथ:

English

[Bhishma said:] "Here I shall relate to you an ancient tale of how Kundadhara long ago, out of affection, helped a devotee.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सद्य:प्रक्षालका: केचित् केचिन्मासिकसंचया:

English

A certain poor brahmana, from desire, looked to dharma; wishing wealth for sacrifice, he performed dreadful austerity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रकीर्त्सममानं परमं परायणम् चतुश्नत्वारिंशदधिकद्विशततमोध्याय:

English

Having made his resolve, he worshipped the deities with devotion, but did not gain wealth by worshipping the deities.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यत्र क्वचन शायी च त॑ देवा ब्राह्मणं विदु:

English

Then he fell into worry again: "Which deity is it that would quickly be gracious to me, not made dull by men?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्मुक्ते बन्धनै: सर्वैस्तं देवा ब्राह्म॒णं विदु: कुर्यान्न कर्माणि हि श्रद्धधान:

English

Then, near him, he saw with a gentle form an attendant of the gods, a cloud-bearer, Kundadhara, standing.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सो5नन्त्यमाप्रोत्य भयं प्रजाभ्य:

English

On seeing that great soul, devotion arose in him: "He will give me good fortune, for his form is such.

हिन्दी अर्थ

देवा: समर्त्या: सुकृतं वदन्ति तस्यैव देवा: स्पृहयन्ति नित्यम्

English

He is near the god and not surrounded by other men; he will give me abundant wealth, and quickly."

हिन्दी अर्थ

यो वेद भोग्यात्मनि रश्मिदीप्त:

English

Then the twice-born worshipped him with incense, perfumes, garlands of various kinds, and many kinds of offerings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भोजन हविष्यके समान और अमृत माना गया है विघसं भृत्यशेषं तु यज्ञशेषमथामृतम्

English

"Senajit said, 'What is that intelligence, what is that penance, O learned Brahmana, what is that concentration of mind, O thou that hast wealth of asceticism, what is that knowledge, and what is that learning, by acquiring which thou dost not yield to sorrow?'

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋषत्विक् पुरोहिताचार्यमातुलातिथिसंश्रितै:

English

"The Brahmana said, 'Behold, all creatures,— the superior, the middling, and the inferior,— in consequence of their respective acts, are entangled in grief. I do not regard even my own self to be mine. On the other hand, I regard the whole world to be mine. I again think that all this (which I see) is as much mine as it belongs to others. Grief cannot approach me in consequence of this thought. Having acquired such an understanding, I do not yield either to joy or to grief. As two pieces of wood floating on the ocean come together at one time and are again separated, even such is the union of (living) creatures in this world. Sons, grandsons, kinsmen, relatives are all of this kind. One should never feel affection for them, for separation with them is certain. Thy son came from an invisible region. He has departed and become invisible. He did not know thee. Thou didst not know him. Who art thou and for whom dost thou grieve? Grieve arises from the disease constituted by desire. Happiness again results from the disease of desire being cured. From joy also springs sorrow, and hence sorrow arises repeatedly. Sorrow comes after joy, and joy after sorrow. The joys and sorrows of human beings are revolving on a wheel. After happiness sorrow has come to thee. Thou shalt again have happiness. No one suffers sorrow for ever, and no one enjoys happiness for ever. The body is the refuge of both sorrow and happiness, l Whatever acts an embodied creature does with the aid of his body, the consequence thereof he has to suffer in that body. Life springs with the springing of the body into existence. The two exist together, and the two perish together. 2 Men of uncleansed souls, wedded to worldly things by various bonds, meet with destruction like embankments of sand in water. Woes of diverse kinds, born of ignorance, act like pressers of oil-seeds, for assailing all creatures in consequence of their attachments. These press them like oil-seeds in the oil-making machine represented by the round of rebirths (to which they are subject). Man, for the sake of his wife (and others), commits numerous evil acts, but suffers singly diverse kinds of misery both in this and the next world. All men, attached to children and wives and kinsmen and relatives, sink in the miry sea of grief like wild elephants, when destitute of strength, sinking in a miry slough. Indeed. O lord, upon loss of wealth or

हिन्दी अर्थ

मातापितृभ्यां जामीभि भ्रात्रा पुत्रेण भार्यया आचार्यो ब्रह्मलोकेश: प्राजापत्ये पिता प्रभु:

English

son or kinsmen or relatives, man suffers great distress, which resembles as regards its power of burning, a forest conflagration. All this, viz., joy and grief, existence and non-existence, is dependent upon destiny. One having friends as one destitute of friends, one having foes as one destitute of foes, one having wisdom as one destitute of wisdom, each and every one amongst these, obtains happiness through destiny. Friends are not the cause of one's happiness. Foes are not the cause of one's misery.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जामयोअप्सरसां लोके वैश्वदेवे तु ज्ञातय:

English

Then the brahmana, by the radiance of Kundadhara, saw in a dream all beings, lying on kusha grass.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वृद्धबालातुरकृशास्त्वाकाशे प्रभविष्णव: लोकोंकी प्राप्ति होती है

English

The brahmana, pure of self, unadorned, through calm, austerity and devotion, saw an example in the night.

हिन्दी अर्थ

छाया सवा दासवर्गश्व दुहिता कृपणं परम्

English

He saw Manibhadra there, of great radiance, the great-souled one among the gods, giving orders, Yudhishthira.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गृहधर्मपरो विद्वान् धर्मशीलो जितक्लम: और थकावटको जीतकर धर्मका निरन्तर पालन करते रहना चाहिए

English

There the gods give kingdoms and wealth; those engaged in good deeds cut off the evil ones.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गृहस्थवृत्तयस्तिस्रस्तासां नि:श्रेयसं परम्

English

Then, while the yakshas watched, Kundadhara of great radiance, coming out, fell on the ground before the gods, bull of the Bharatas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवं कल्याणकारिणी हैं यथोक्ता नियमास्तेषां सर्व कार्य बुभूषता

English

Then, by the gods' word, Manibhadra of great fame said to him fallen on the ground: "Kundadhara, what is wished?"

हिन्दी अर्थ

नियम हैं, उन सबका अपनी उन्नति चाहनेवाले पुरुषको पालन करना चाहिए

English

[Kundadhara said:] "If the gods are pleased with me, this brahmana is my devotee; I wish to do him a favour that brings happiness."

हिन्दी अर्थ

जितेन्द्रियाणामथवा गतिरेषा विधीयते

English

[Bhishma said:] Then Manibhadra spoke again to Kundadhara of great radiance, by the word of the gods:

हिन्दी अर्थ

द्वितीयं क्रमश: प्राप्य स्वर्गलोके महीयते गार्हस्थ्यको पाकर मनुष्य स्वर्गलोकमें प्रतिष्ठित होता है

English

"Rise, rise, good luck to you; your work done, be happy. As much wealth as this friend of yours the brahmana wishes, by the command of the gods I give an immeasurable amount."

हिन्दी अर्थ

शृणुष्व संश्लिष्टशरीरकारिणाम्

English

But Kundadhara, reflecting that human life is unsteady and impermanent, set his mind on the austerity of that famous brahmana.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त्रिचत्वारिंशदधिकद्विशततमोध्याय: तदनन्तरमुक्तं यत् तन्निबोध युधिछिर

English

[Kundadhara said:] "I do not ask for wealth for the brahmana, giver of wealth; I wish another favour for my devotee.

हिन्दी अर्थ

महात्मा पुत्र शुकदेवसे जो कुछ कहा था, वह सब बताता हूँ, सुनो

English

I do not wish for my devotee the earth full of jewels or a great heap of wealth; let him be righteous.

हिन्दी अर्थ

संयोगव्रतखिन्नानां वानप्रस्थाश्रमौकसाम् प्रेक्षापूर्व प्रवृत्तानां पुण्यदेशनिवासिनाम्

English

Let his mind delight in dharma and let him live by dharma; let him be chief in dharma; this I hold to be my favour."

हिन्दी अर्थ

अपत्यस्यैव चापत्यं वनमेव तदा श्रयेत्

English

[Manibhadra said:] "Since the kingdom and varied pleasures are the fruit of dharma, let him enjoy the fruits themselves, free of bodily affliction."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तानेवाग्नीन् परिचरेद् यजमानो दिवौकस: तदग्निहोत्रं ता गावो यज्ञाज़नि च सर्वश:

English

[Bhishma said:] Then Kundadhara of great fame did that very thing many times, practising dharma, and the deities were pleased with him.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वानप्रस्थका धर्म है

English

[Manibhadra said:] "All those deities are pleased with him and with this brahmana; this righteous-souled one will set his mind on dharma."

हिन्दी अर्थ

हवींषि सम्प्रयच्छेत मखेष्वत्रापि पजचसु हविष्य वितरण करे

English

[Bhishma said:] Then the cloud-bearer, Yudhishthira, his work done, having gained the wish of his mind, a boon hard for others to obtain,

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुर्वन्त्यतिथिपूजार्थ यज्ञतन्त्रार्थमेव वा संग्रह अतिथि-सेवा तथा यज्ञकर्मके लिये होता है

English

saw then the fine garments of the best of the twice-born lying at his side, and came to despondency.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्थानासनैवरवर्तयन्ति सवनेष्वभिषिज्चते

English

[The brahmana said:] "He does not know good deeds; who else will know what is done? I shall go to the forest; better to live by dharma."

हिन्दी अर्थ

आसन लगाकर बैठते तथा तीनों काल स्नान और संध्या करते हैं शुक्लपक्षे पिबन्त्येके यवागूं क्वथितां सकृत्

English

[Bhishma said:] From despondency and the grace of the gods, that best of the twice-born entered the forest and began great austerity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करते हुए फूलोंसे ही धर्मानुकूल जीविका चलाते हैं

English

Living on roots and fruit, on the remains of offerings to gods and guests, the twice-born, great king, also came to delight in dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एताश्चान्याश्व विविधा दीक्षास्तेषां मनीषिणाम् अगस्त्य: सप्त ऋषयो मधुच्छन्दो5घमर्षण:

English

Giving up all roots and fruit he became a leaf-eater; giving up leaves, the best of the twice-born then lived on water.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अहोवीर्यस्तथा काव्यस्ताण्ड्यो मेधातिथिबुध:

English

Later he lived on wind for many years, and his breath did not fail; it was as if a marvel.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एनं धर्म कृतवन्तस्तत:ः स्वर्गमुपागमन् ऋषीणामुग्रतपसां धर्मनैपुणदर्शिनाम्

English

To him, faithful in dharma and engaged in fierce austerity, after a great time divine vision arose.

हिन्दी अर्थ

गताः प्रत्यक्षधर्माणस्ते सर्वे वनमाश्रिता:

English

The thought arose in him: "If, pleased, I were to give great wealth to someone, my word would not be false."

हिन्दी अर्थ

जरया च परिय्यूनो व्याधिना च प्रपीडित: आत्मन्यग्नीन् समारोप्य त्यक्त्वा सर्वपरिग्रहान्

English

Then, with glad face, he took up austerity again and thought again what the perfected one attains above.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पश्चात् तेजोमय लोकमें जाता है और अन्तमें मोक्ष प्राप्त कर लेता है

English

"If, pleased, I were to give a kingdom to anyone, he would soon be king, and my word would not be false."

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनुसार उस परमात्माका चिन्तन कैसे करना चाहिए?

English

Kundadhara showed himself to him in person, Bharata, urged by friendship through the brahmana's austerity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यत्कार्य परमार्थ तु तदिहैकमना: शूणु एकाग्रचित्त होकर सुनो

English

Meeting him, the brahmana honoured Kundadhara by rule, and was amazed, king.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रव्रजेच्च परं स्थान पारिव्राज्यमनुत्तमम्

English

Then Kundadhara said: "Your divine eye is the best; see the fate of kings, brahmana, and look at the worlds with that eye."

हिन्दी अर्थ

एक एव चरेद् धर्म सिद्धयर्थमसहायवान् न लेकर अकेला ही संन्यास-धर्मका पालन करे

English

Then the brahmana saw from afar with the divine-joined eye thousands of kings sunk in hell.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनग्निरनिकेतश्न ग्राममन्नार्थमा श्रयेत्

English

[Kundadhara said:] "If, having honoured me with feeling, you should meet sorrow, what would I have done, and what would be the favour to you?

हिन्दी अर्थ

लिये ही गाँवमें जाय लघ्वाशी नियताहार: सकृदन्ननिषेविता

English

See, see again; how would a man wish for desires? For the door of heaven is shut, especially among men."

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपेक्षा सर्वभूतानामेतावद् भिक्षुलक्षणम्

English

[Bhishma said:] Then he saw desire, anger, greed, fear, pride, sleep, drowsiness and sloth standing and covering men.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सब संन्यासीके लक्षण हैं ब्राह्मणानां विशेषेण नैव ब्रूयात् कथंचन

English

[Kundadhara said:] "By these the worlds are closed; the gods fear men, and by the gods' word they cause obstruction everywhere.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तूष्णीमासीत निन्दायां कुर्वन् भैषज्यमात्मन:

English

No one becomes righteous without the permission of the gods; you are able by austerity to give a kingdom and wealth."

हिन्दी अर्थ

शून्यं येन जनाकीर्ण त॑ देवा ब्राह्मणं विदु: समझता है, उसे ही देवतालोग ब्राह्मण (ब्रह्मज्ञानी) मानते हैं

English

[Bhishma said:] Then the brahmana fell with his head before the cloud-bearer and said, righteous-souled: "A great favour has been done to me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कुणपादिव च स्त्रीभ्यस्तं देवा ब्राह्मणं विदु: कालमेव प्रतीक्षेत निदेशं भूतको यथा

English

That I envied you before through the bonds of desire and greed, not knowing your affection: forgive me for it."

हिन्दी अर्थ

निर्मुक्तः सर्वपापेभ्यो निरमित्रस्थ कि भयम्

English

"Forgiven by me," said Kundadhara, and embracing the best of the twice-born in his arms, he vanished right there.

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्थिति प्राप्त हो उसे किसीसे क्या भय हो सकता है? तस्य मोहाद् विमुक्तस्य भयं नास्ति कुतश्चन

English

Then the brahmana roamed all these worlds, joined with austerity by the grace of Kundadhara, as before.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वाण्येवापिधीयन्ते पदजातानि कौज्जरे

English

Travel through the sky, accomplishment of whatever he conceived, power from dharma, and the highest goal by yoga:

हिन्दी अर्थ

अमृत: स नित्यं वसति यो हिंसां न प्रपद्यते शरण्य: सर्वभूतानां गतिमाप्रोत्यनुत्तमाम्

English

gods, brahmanas, the good, yakshas, men and charanas honour the righteous here, not the wealthy and not the desirous.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न मृत्युरतिगो भाव: स मृत्युमधिगच्छति

English

The gods are well pleased that your mind delights in dharma; in wealth there is a little part of happiness, but in dharma the highest happiness."

हिन्दी अर्थ

किरणोंसे प्रकाशित होता है तत् कालचक्रं निहितं गुहायाम्

English

Wisdom is not competent to bring an accession of wealth; nor is wealth competent to bring an accession of happiness. Intelligence is not the cause of wealth, nor is stupidity the cause of penury. He only that is possessed of wisdom, and none else, understands the order of the world. Amongst the intelligent, the heroic, the foolish, the cowardly, the idiotic, the learned, the weak, or the strong, happiness comes to him for whom it is ordained. Among the calf, the cowherd that owns her, and the thief, the cow indeed belongs to him who drinks her milk, l They whose understanding is absolutely dormant, and they who have attained to that state of the mind which lies beyond the sphere of the intellect, succeed in enjoying happiness. Only they that are between the two classes, suffer misery. 2 They that are possessed of wisdom delight in the two extremes but not in the states that are intermediate. The sages have said that the attainment of any of these two extremes constitutes happiness. Misery consists in the states that are intermediate between the two. 3 They who have succeeded in attaining to real felicity (which samadhi can bring), and who have become free from the pleasures and pains of this world, and who are destitute of envy, are never agitated by either the accession of wealth or its loss. They who have not succeeded in acquiring that intelligence which leads to real felicity, but who have transcended folly and ignorance (by the help of a knowledge of the scriptures), give way to excessive joy and excessive misery. Men destitute of all notions of right or wrong, insensate with pride and with success over others, yield to transports of delight like the gods in heaven. 4 Happiness must end in misery. Idleness is misery; while cleverness (in action) is the cause of happiness. Affluence and prosperity dwell in one possessed of cleverness, but not in one that is idle. Be it happiness or be it misery, be it agreeable or be it disagreeable, what comes to one should be enjoyed or

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनीश्वर: प्रशान्तात्मा ततो्र्च्छत्यमृतं पदम्

English

[Bhishma said:] "Here I shall relate to you what was told by Narada about the gleaner's sacrifice for a brahmana in former times.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और अपनेको काम आदि शत्रुओंके हाथोंमें सौंपकर मृत्युका कष्ट भोगता है निवाते वा यथा दीपो दीप्यमानो न कम्पते

English

In a realm of most excellent dharma, in the Vidarbhas, there was a twice-born, a gleaner, a certain sage, who performed sacrifice by sacrifice.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लघ्वाहारो विशुद्धात्मा पश्यत्यात्मानमात्मनि

English

There his food was millet; the sun's wife Suvarchala, and bitter, tasteless greens, became sweet through austerity.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आत्मप्रत्ययिकं शास्त्रमिदं पुत्रानुशसनम् यह ठीक-ठीक समझमें आता है

English

Approaching the earth in the forest, without harming any being, the sacrifice leading to heaven, scourge of foes, can be performed even with roots and fruit.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दशेदमृक्सहस्राणि निर्मथ्यामृतमुद्भुतम्

English

His wife, thin with vows, pure, wandering in the lotus-pond, was brought to be the sacrificer's wife; she is followed by truth, but, terrified of the curse, she did not follow her nature.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दस हजार ऋचाओंका मन्थन करके यह अमृतमय सारतत्त्व निकाला गया है तथैव विदुषां ज्ञानं पुत्र हेतो: समुद्धृूतम्

English

Her garment of the old leaves of the peacock-feathered leafy trees was made there, not by her wish, in the sacrifice, following the hotri.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदिदं नाप्रशान्ताय नादान्तायातपस्विने

English

By ill-thinking, the ignorant of dharma was born again from Shukra; in that forest near by a deer was a companion; it spoke truth in words: "A bad deed was done by you.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपदेश नहीं करना चाहिए उपदेश देना उचित नहीं है

English

If this sacrifice becomes deformed, lacking in mantra and limbs, then, sir, throw me into the hotri's fire; go to heaven untiringly."

हिन्दी अर्थ

स्ते वै तृप्तास्तर्पयन्त्यास्यमस्य

English

endured with an unconquered heart. Every day a thousand occasions for sorrow, and hundred occasions for fear assail the man of ignorance and folly but not the man that is possessed of wisdom. Sorrow can never touch the man that is possessed of intelligence, that has acquired wisdom, that is mindful of listening to the instructions of his betters, that is destitute of envy, and that is self-restrained. Relying upon such an understanding, and protecting his heart (from the influences of desire and the passions), the man of wisdom should conduct himself here. Indeed, sorrow is unable to touch him who is conversant with that Supreme Self from which everything springs and unto which everything disappears, i The very root of that for which grief, or heartburning, or sorrow is felt or for which one is impelled to exertion, should, even if it be a part of one's body, be cast off. That object, whatever it may be in respect of which the idea of meum is cherished, becomes a source of grief and heart-burning. Whatever objects, amongst things that are desired, are cast off become sources of happiness. The man that pursues objects of desire meets with destruction in course of the pursuit. Neither the happiness that is derived from a gratification of the senses nor that great felicity which one may enjoy in heaven, approaches to even a sixteenth part of the felicity which arises from the destruction of all desires. The acts of a former life, right or wrong, visit, in their consequences, the wise and the foolish, the brave and the timid. It is even thus that joy and sorrow, the agreeable and the disagreeable, continually revolve (as on a wheel) among living creatures. Relying upon such an understanding, the man of intelligence and wisdom lives at ease. A person should disregard all his desires, and never allow his wrath to get the better of him. This wrath springs in the heart and grows there into vigour and luxuriance. This wrath that dwells in the bodies of men and is born in their minds, is spoken of by the wise as Death. When a person

हिन्दी अर्थ

स भूतानां न त्रसते कदाचित् न चेह नामुत्र च सो5न्नमृच्छति

English

Thus addressed, she turned back and entered the sacrificial fire; desiring to see what bad conduct there was in the sacrifice, she went to the nether world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

भोगोंमें आसक्त नहीं होता

English

With folded hands she begged the deer for truth again; embraced by truth, she was told, "Let it be gone."

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्वरन्नुदासीनवदेष भिक्षुक: पजञ्चचत्वारिंशदधिकद्धिशततमो5 ध्याय:

English

Then the deer went eight steps and turned back: "Kill me well; killed by truth, I shall go to a good end.

हिन्दी अर्थ

न चैनं ते प्रजानन्ति स तु जानाति तानपि

English

See, with the eye I have given, the divine apsarases and the wondrous aerial cars of the great-souled gandharvas."

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुदान्तैरिव संयन्ता दृढ़: परमवाजिभि: कार्य सिद्ध करता है

English

Then, seeing the lovely things with an eye clinging in longing, looking at the deer, she approved of heaven's dwelling by violence.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनसस्तु परा बुद्धिर्बुद्धेरात्मा महान् पर:

English

But Dharma, having become a deer, living many years in the forest, set up atonement for him; that was not the arrangement of sacrifice.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बलवान है और बुद्धिसे जीवात्मा बलवान् है सीमा और परम गति है

English

For him, by that feeling, with the mind of killing a deer then, great austerity was cut off; therefore violence is not for sacrifice.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दृश्यते त्वग्र्यया बुद्धया सूक्ष्मया सूक्ष्मदर्शिभि:

English

Then the blessed Dharma himself had that sacrifice performed, and he gained by austerity the supreme concentration of his wife.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुद्धिद्वारा उसका दर्शन करते हैं इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थाश्च॒ बहुचिन्त्यमचिन्तयन्

English

Non-violence is all of dharma; violence is not fitting in sacrifice; I shall tell you the truth, the dharma of truth-speakers."

हिन्दी अर्थ

श्लाघधिने श्लाघनीयाय प्रशान्ताय तपस्विने

English

succeeds in withdrawing all his desires like a tortoise withdrawing all its limbs, then his soul, which is self-luminous, succeeds in looking into itself. 2 That object, whatever it may be, in respect of which the idea of meum is cherished, becomes a source of grief and heart-burning. 3 When a person himself feels no fear, and is feared by no one, when he cherishes no desire and no aversion, he is then said to attain to the state of Brahma. Casting off both truth and falsehood, grief and joy, fear and courage, the agreeable and the disagreeable, thou mayst become of tranquil soul. When a person abstains from doing wrong to any creature, in thought, word, or deed, he is then said to attain to a state of Brahma. True happiness is his who can cast off that thirst which is incapable of being cast off by the misguided, which does not decay with decrepitude, and which is regarded as a fatal disease. In this connection, O king, are heard

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राणियोंमें उनके कर्मानुसार ही न्यूनाधिकरूपमें उन भूतोंका समावेश किया है इन्द्रियाणि गुणा: केचित् कथं तानुपलक्षयेत्

English

[Bhishma said:] "You know all dharmas; you ask about the settled matter; hear liberation with disgust, sin and dharma from the root.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवमेवेन्द्रियग्रामं बुद्धिः सृष्टवा नियच्छति

English

For the knowledge of the five, wish first arises; having attained them, desire or aversion is born, bull of the Bharatas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इन्द्रियोंको विषयोंकी ओर फैलाकर फिर उन्हें वहाँसे हटा लेती है एतस्मिन्नेव कृत्ये तु वर्तते बुद्धिरुत्तमा

English

Then he strives for it and undertakes action again, and wishes to practise the wished-for forms and scents.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मन:षष्ठानि सर्वाणि बुद्धयभावे कुतो गुणा:

English

Then attachment arises, and aversion after it; then greed arises, and delusion after it.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सप्तमीं बुद्धिमेवाहु: क्षेत्रज्ञ पुनरष्टमम् क्षेत्रज्म बताया गया है

English

For one overcome by greed and delusion and joined with attachment and aversion, understanding does not arise in dharma, and he does dharma by pretext.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बुद्धिरध्यवसानाय साक्षी क्षेत्रज्ञ उच्चते

English

As he practises dharma by pretext, the pretext of wealth too pleases him, as wealth is gained by pretext, delight of the Kurus.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समा: सर्वेषु भूतेषु तान् गुणानुपलक्षयेत् प्रशान्तमिव संशुद्ध॑ सत्त्वं तदुपधारयेत्

English

There he sets his mind, then wishes to do sin, though restrained by friends and by the learned, Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रवृत्त रज इत्येवं तत्र चाप्युपलक्षयेत्

English

He gives a reply joined with reasoning and fitted by rule; his threefold adharma grows, born of attachment and delusion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रहस्यधर्म वक्तव्यं नान्यस्मै तु कथंचन समझे कि इस सारे धनकी अपेक्षा यह ज्ञान ही श्रेष्ठ है

English

the verses sung by Pingala about the manner in which she had acquired eternal merit even at a time that had been very unfavourable. A fallen woman of the name of Pingala, having repaired to the place of assignation, was denied the company of her lover through an accident. At that time of great misery, she succeeded in acquiring tranquillity of soul.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत् तेरहं सम्प्रवक्ष्यामि यन्मां त्वं परिपृच्छसि

English

"Pingala said, Alas, I have for many long years lived, all the while overcome by frenzy, by the side of that Dear Self in whom there is nothing but tranquillity. Death has been at my door. Before this, I did not, however approach that Essence of Purity. I shall cover this house of one column and nine doors (by means of true Knowledge), l What woman is there that regards that Supreme Soul as her dear lord, even when He comes near? 2 I am now awake. I have been roused from the sleep of ignorance. I am no longer influenced by desire. Human lovers, who are really the embodied forms of hell, shall no longer deceive me by approaching me lustfully. Evil produces good through the destiny or the acts of a former life. Roused (from the sleep of ignorance), I have cast off all desire for worldly objects. I have acquired a complete mastery over my senses. One freed from desire and hope sleeps in felicity. Freedom from every hope and desire is felicity. Having driven off desire and hope, Pingala sleeps in felicity.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुत्र कि हि कथयामि ते पुन: षट्चत्वारिंशदधिकशततमो ध्याय:

English

"Bhishma continued, 'Convinced with these and other words uttered by the learned Brahmana, king Senajit (casting off his grief), experienced delight and became very happy.'"

हिन्दी अर्थ

यदशध्यात्मं यथा वेद भगवनृषिसत्तम

English

of Religion or the aggregate of duties. At other times it simply means a duty or the course of duties prescribed for a particular situation. Tapah is generally rendered penance. Here, however, it has a direct reference to sravana (hearing), manana (contemplation), and nididhyasana (abstraction of the soul from everything else for absolute concentration). The Grammar of the second half of the first line is Sati apretya etc., Sat being that which is real, hence, the Soul, or the Supreme Soul, of which every individual Soul is only a portion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उपदेश दीजिये। अध्यात्म क्या है और उसे मैं कैसे जानूँगा? जाती है, उसका परिचय मैं तुम्हें दे रहा हूँ; तुम अध्यात्मकी यह व्याख्या सुनो

English

For him, by good conduct and practice, wisdom grows; he delights in dharma and lives by dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

महाभूतानि भूतानां सागरस्योर्मयो यथा

English

Then he sets his mind on wealth gained by dharma, and waters the very root where he sees virtues.

हिन्दी अर्थ

महाभूत प्राणियोंके शरीरके रूपमें जन्म ग्रहण करते और विलीन होते रहते हैं तद्वधन्महान्ति भूतानि यवीय:सु विकुर्वते

English

So he becomes righteous-souled and gains a good friend; and by gain of friends and wealth he rejoices here and hereafter.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सारे महाभूत छोटे-छोटे शरीरोंमें विकृत होते--उत्पन्न और विलीन होते रहते हैं

English

In sound, touch, form, taste and smell, Bharata, a creature gains mastery; this is known as the fruit of dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्गे च प्रलये चैव तस्मिन् निर्दिश्यते तथा ही सबकी उत्पत्ति होती है और प्रलयके समय उन्हींमें सबका लय बताया जाता है

English

Having gained the fruit of dharma he is not satisfied, Yudhishthira; unsatisfied, he takes up disgust with the eye of knowledge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अकरोत् तात वैषम्यं यस्मिन् यदनुपश्यति

English

When the eye of wisdom sees only fault in desire, then he is detached from desires, and does not abandon dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शृणु तत् त्वमिहैकाग्रो यथातत्त्वं यथा च तत्

English

Seeing the world as perishable, he strives for total renunciation; then he strives for liberation, not by the wrong means but the right.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्राणश्रेष्ठा तथा स्पर्श एते वायुगुणास्त्रय: प्राण, चेष्टा तथा स्पर्श--ये तीनों वायुके गुण (कार्य) हैं

English

Slowly he takes up disgust and gives up sinful action; he becomes righteous-souled and gains the highest liberation.

हिन्दी अर्थ

रसो5थ रसन॑ स्नेहो गुणास्त्वेते त्रयोडम्भस:

English

This has been told you, dear, what you ask: sin, dharma, liberation and disgust, Bharata.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आकाश प्रभव: शब्दो गन्धो भूमिगुण: स्मृत: न गुणानतिवर्तन्ते गुणेभ्य: परमागता:

English

Therefore keep to dharma in every state, Yudhishthira; for those established in dharma, Kaunteya, perfection is eternal."

हिन्दी अर्थ

चाहिए कि रजोगुणकी प्रवृत्ति हो रही है अप्रतर्क्यमविज्ञेयं तमस्तदुपधार्यताम्

English

Those who derive no advantage from her have no need for showing her any affection. One should not covet what is above one's want, It has been said, that (to a thirsty or hungry or toil-worn man), a little quantity of vaccine milk is of more use than a hundred kine; a small measure of rice more useful than a hundred barns filled with grain; half a little bed is of more use than a large mansion.

हिन्दी अर्थ

इन्द्रियाण्येव मेध्यानि विजेतव्यानि कृत्स्नश:

English

[Bhishma said:] "This is fitting in you, greatly wise, a skilful view, that you always seek all aims by means, sinless one.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अविभागगता बुद्धिर्भावे मनसि वर्तते अन्वर्था: सम्प्रवर्तन्ते रथनेमिमरा इव

English

The thought for making ghee is not for the birth of ghee, sinless one; so in the means to dharma there is no other cause in dharmas.

हिन्दी अर्थ

निश्चरद्धिर्यथायोगमुदासीनैर्यद्च्छया

English

The road to the eastern sea does not go to the western; but the way to liberation is one; hear that at length from me.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अशोचचन्नप्रहृष्यन् हि नित्यं विगतमत्सर: नहीं पड़ता, हर्ष और शोक नहीं करता तथा ईर्ष्या-द्वेष आदिसे रहित रहता है

English

One should cut off anger by forbearance, desire by giving up intentions; the steadfast should cut off sleep by cultivating goodness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रवर्तमानैरनये दुष्करैरकृतात्मभि:

English

By heedfulness one should guard against fear, breath by practice of the knower of the field; wish, aversion and desire he should turn aside by steadiness.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तदा प्रकाशतेस्यात्मा दीपदीप्ता यथा55कृति: प्रकाशं भवते सर्व तथेदमुपधार्यताम्

English

Giddiness, delusion and whirling he should turn aside by practice; sleep and brilliance by the practice of knowledge, the knower of truth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विमुक्तात्मा तथा योगी गुणदोषैर्न लिप्यते

English

Troubles and diseases by moderate, wholesome, digestible diet; greed and delusion by contentment; objects by seeing the truth.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मुक्तात्मा योगी संसारमें रहकर भी उसके गुण और दोषोंसे लिपायमान नहीं होता असज्जमान: सर्वेषु कथंचन न लिप्यते

English

He should conquer adharma by compassion, dharma by disregard; hope by foresight, wealth by giving up attachment.

हिन्दी अर्थ

कि तमोगुण प्रवृत्त हुआ है

English

him, are those who are in deep sleep. There are four stages of consciousness. These are (1) wakefulness, (2) dream, (3) dreamless or deep slumber, and (4) Turiya or absolute Samadhi (which the Yogin only can attain to).

हिन्दी अर्थ

किसी कारणवश विकसित हों, तब समझना चाहिए कि ये सात्विक गुण हैं लिज्रानि रजसस्तानि वर्तन्ते हेत्वहेतुत:

English

ones are wakefulness and sleep with dream.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तमोगुणका कार्य जानना चाहिए

English

victories in, battle and other concerns of the world.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सप्तचत्वारिंशदधिकद्विशततमो5ध्याय: ह्ृदयं प्रियाप्रिये वेद त्रिविधा कर्मचोदना

English

What is said here is that man who succeeds in attaining to a state of Brahma by true Samadhi or abstraction from the world, can never be touched by grief.

हिन्दी अर्थ

मनसस्तु परा बुद्धिर्बुद्धेरात्मा परो मत:

English

at his own self. The meaning seems to be that he experiences a sort of double existence so that he succeeds in himself looking at his own self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

बलवान माना गया है (क्योंकि वह बुद्धिको सम बनाकर स्वाधीन कर सकता है) यदा विकुरुते भावं तदा भवति सा मन:

English

the nine doors are the eyes, the ears, the nostrils, etc. etc.

हिन्दी अर्थ

शृण्वती भवति श्रोत्रं स्मृशती स्पर्श उच्यते

English

Being to be so, although He is always with them.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जिप्रती भवति प्राणं बुद्धिर्विक्रियते पृथक् न सुखेन न दुःखेन कदाचिदिह युज्यते

English

With sin shaken off, full of energy, light of diet, master of senses, having brought desire and anger under control, he should wish to lead himself to the seat of Brahman.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एवं न दुःखसे ही; उसपर मोह छाया रहता है (यही उसका तामस भाव है)

English

Freedom from delusion, from attachment, from desire and anger, from meanness, from overflow, from agitation, steadiness:

हिन्दी अर्थ

सरितां सागरो भर्ता महावेलामिवोर्मिमान् योगमें स्थित होनेपर इन तीनों भावोंको लाँघ जाती है

English

this is the path of liberation, serene, stainless, pure; so is restraint of speech, body and mind; otherwise it is by desire."

हिन्दी अर्थ

सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्य गुणवर्गेष्वसज्जत:

English

" Yudhishthira said, 'Time, which is destructive of every created thing, is passing on. 3 Tell me, O grandsire, what is that good thing which should be sought.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

संसार-सागरमें ड्ूबकर कष्ट भोगते रहते हैं--ऐसा समझो एवं यो विन्दते55त्मानं केवल ज्ञानमात्मन:

English

Knowing the aged Devala seated, Narada, best of the wise, asked about the origin and dissolution of beings.

हिन्दी अर्थ

आत्मतृप्त इवासीत बहुचिन्त्यमचिन्तयन्

English

"Whence was this universe made, brahmana, moving and unmoving, and into what does it go at dissolution? Tell me that."

हिन्दी अर्थ

तत्त्वदर्शी ज्ञानी मुनि इस धर्मको समस्त प्राणियोंके लिये सबसे श्रेष्ठ मानते हैं

English

[Asita said:] "From which Time, urged by being, creates beings, the thinkers on beings say are the five great elements.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनुगत भक्त हो, उसीके समक्ष इसका वर्णन करना चाहिए कथितानि मया पुत्र भवन्ति न भवन्ति च

English

From them Time, urged by the self, creates beings; whoever speaks of anything beyond these speaks falsehood, without doubt.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रूयात् सुतस्येह यदुक्तमेतत्

English

Know, Narada, these five as eternal, unmoving and firm, heaps of great energy, with time as sixth, by nature.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऋचो यजूंसि सामानि न तेन न स वै द्विज: ऋग्वेद, यजुर्वेद एवं सामवेदका पूरा-पूरा ज्ञान प्राप्त कर ले, वही मुख्य ब्राह्मण है

English

Water, space, earth, wind and fire; beyond these elements, there is no success; doubt is gone.

हिन्दी अर्थ

नाकामो ग्रियते जातु न तेन न च वै द्विज:

English

Not by reasoning or logic would one speak falsehood, without doubt; you know them as come forth, whose heaps these are.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लक्षणोंसे सम्पन्न पुरुष ब्राह्मण नहीं है ऐसी बात नहीं, किंतु वही सच्चा ब्राह्मण है प्राप्रोति नैव ब्राह्म॒ण्यमविधानात् कथंचन

English

Those five, time, and being and non-being alone: the eight, the eternal elements of beings, their arising and passing.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सत्त्वक्षेत्रज्योरेतदन्तरं विद्धि सूक्ष्मयो: यही अन्तर समझो कि बुद्धि दृश्य है और आत्मा द्रष्टा है

English

"Bhishma said, 'In this connection, O king, is cited the old narrative of a discourse between sire and son, O Yudhishthira! A certain Brahmana. O Partha, who was devoted to the study of the Vedas, got a very intelligent son who (for this) was called Medhavin. 4 One day, the son, well conversant with the truths of the religion of Emancipation, and acquainted also with the affairs of the world, addressed his sire devoted to the study of the Vedas.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

पृथग्भूतौ प्रकृत्या तौ सम्प्रयुक्तो च सर्वदा

English

"The son said, 'What should a wise man do, O father, seeing that the period of human life is passing away so very quickly? O father, tell me

हिन्दी अर्थ

मशकोदुम्बरौ वापि सम्प्रयुक्तो यथा सह तथैव सहितावेतावन्योन्यस्मिन् प्रतिष्ठितो

English

the course of duties that one should perform, without omitting to mention the fruits. Having listened to thee, I desire to observe those duties.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

अष्टचत्वारिंशदधिकद्धिशततमो ध्याय:

English

"The sire said, 'O son, observing the Brahmacharya mode of life, one should first study the Vedas. He should then wish for children for rescuing his ancestors. Setting up his fire next, he should seek to perform the (prescribed) sacrifices according to due rites. At last, he should enter the forest for devoting himself to contemplation.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

ऊर्णनाभिर्यथा सूत्र सृजते तद्गुणांस्तथा एवमेके व्यवस्यन्ति निवृत्तिरिति चापरे

English

"The son said, 'When the world is thus surrounded on all sides and is thus assailed, and when such irresistible things of fatal consequences fall upon it, how can you say these words so calmly?'

हिन्दी अर्थ

उनका अस्तित्त्व नहीं रहता

English

"The sire said, How is the world assailed? What is that by which it is surrounded? What, again, are those irresistible things of fatal consequences that fall upon it? Why dost thou frighten me thus?'

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनेनैव विधानेन भवेद् गर्भशयो महान् अक्रुध्यन्नप्रद्ष्यंश्व नित्यं विगतमत्सर:

English

"The son said, 'Death is that by which the world is assailed. Decrepitude encompasses it. Those irresistible things that come and go away are the nights (that are continually lessening the period of human life). When I know that Death tarries for none (but approaches steadily towards every creature), how can I pass my time without covering myself with the garb of knowledge? l When each succeeding night, passing away lessens the allotted period of one's existence, the man of wisdom should regard the day to be fruitless. (When death is approaching steadily) who is there that would, like a fish in a shallow water, feel happy? Death comes to a man before his desires have been gratified. Death snatches away a person when he is engaged in plucking flowers and when his heart is otherwise set, like a tigress bearing

हिन्दी अर्थ

देषसे रहित हो विचरता रहे

English

First the creature perceives the objects separately by the senses; afterward it reflects by mind and then determines by intellect; he who determines all the things grasped by the senses.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अनित्यं सुखमासीत अशोचंश्छिन्नसंशय: परमात्मस्वरूपमें स्थित हो जाय

English

Thought, the group of senses, mind, intellect, and the eighth: these are called the eight senses of knowledge by thinkers on the self.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अवगाढा हााविद्वांसो विद्धि लोकमिमं तथा

English

Hands, feet, anus, genital and mouth as fifth: hear also these called the senses of action.

हिन्दी अर्थ

समवेक्ष्य च वैषम्यं लभते शममुत्तमम्

English

The mouth is called the sense for speech and eating; the feet the sense of movement; the hands for the instrument of action.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अवस्थापर विचार करता है, उसे परम उत्तम शान्ति प्राप्त होती है आत्मज्ञानं शमश्लैव पर्याप्तं तत्परायणम्

English

The anus and genital are the senses for discharge, similar in action, in the discharge of excrement and in the amorous discharge.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और मुक्त हो जाते हैं

English

Strength resides in these, with speech rightly as taught; I have named all the qualities of knowledge, action and senses.

हिन्दी अर्थ

और किसीको भी प्राप्त नहीं होती ये विदुस्तदुभयं कृताकृतम्

English

When the senses cease from their own actions through weariness, then with the withdrawal of the senses man sleeps.

हिन्दी अर्थ

जानते हैं, वे शोक नहीं करते। तुम उन्हीं लोगोंको वहाँ कुशल समझो

English

If, with the senses stilled, the mind is not stilled and serves the objects, know it from the seeing of dreams.

हिन्दी अर्थ

एकोनपजञ्चाशदधिकद्धिशततमो ध्याय: यो विशिष्ट श्व धर्मेभ्यस्तं भवान् प्रव्रवीतु मे

English

The sattvic, rajasic and tamasic states: they praise those joined to action, the sattvic and the others.

हिन्दी अर्थ

है तथा जो सब धर्मोंसे श्रेष्ठ है, उसका आप मुझसे वर्णन कीजिये

English

Joy, success of actions, attainment, the highest goal: memory resorts to the states that are the causes of the sattvic.

हिन्दी अर्थ

विशिष्ट सर्वधर्मेभ्यस्तमिहैकमना: शूणु सर्वतो निष्पतिष्णूनि पिता बालानिवात्मजान्

English

In one of the creatures the states that follow the rule are ever sought of the two states, and the direct approach of both.

हिन्दी अर्थ

करके उन्हें वशमें रखे

English

The senses and states are held to be seventeen qualities; the eighteenth is the embodied one, who is eternal in the body.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तज्ज्याय: सर्वधर्मेभ्य: स धर्म: पर उच्यते धर्म बताया जाता है

English

Or the qualities are all with bodies, resting in the embodied; when parted from that, they are bodiless and are not.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चिन्तन न करते हुए अपनी आत्मामें तृप्त-सा होकर निश्चिन्त और निश्चल हो जाय तदा त्वमात्मना55त्मानं पर द्रक्ष्यसि शाश्वतम्

English

Or this is a combination, the body of five elements; these, ten and eight, are the qualities of the embodied; with heat the twentieth, a combination of five elements.

हिन्दी अर्थ

उस समय तुम स्वयं ही उस सनातन परमात्माका दर्शन कर लोगे

English

The great one supports this body with the wind; for it, joined with states, the cause is in the breaking of the body.

हिन्दी अर्थ

त॑ पश्यन्ति महात्मानो ब्राह्मणा ये मनीषिण: अन्यो ह्वात्रान्तरात्मास्ति यः सर्वमनुपश्यति

English

As anything arises and goes to its fivefold state, so at the end of the destruction of merit and demerit, driven by merit and demerit, he enters a body in time, then this one born of action.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दृष्टवा त्वमात्मना55त्मानं निरात्मा भव सर्ववित्

English

Leaving and leaving, he goes from body to body, having taken refuge, driven by Time, the owner of the field, as from a broken house to a house.

हिन्दी अर्थ

परां बुद्धिमवाप्येह विपाप्मा विगतज्वर: तुम यहाँ पाप और चिन्तासे रहित हो जाओ

English

There the wise of settled resolve do not grieve; but wretched men proud of their relations grieve.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सत्यतीर्थनृतक्षोभां क्रोधपड्कां सरिद्वराम्

English

He belongs to none, and none belongs to him; this one is alone ever, sharing pleasure and pain in the body.

हिन्दी अर्थ

प्रतरस्व नदीं बुद्धया कामग्राहसमाकुलाम् आत्मकर्मोद्धवां तात जिद्नावर्ता दुरासदाम्

English

The creature is never born, nor does he ever perish; having enjoyed the body, he goes sometime to the highest goal.

हिन्दी अर्थ

तां तीर्ण: सर्वतो मुक्तो विधृतात्मा55त्मविच्छुचि:

English

Wasting the body made of merit and demerit by the heap of action, the embodied one with spent body again attains Brahman-hood.

हिन्दी अर्थ

अक्रुध्यन्नप्रहृष्यंश्न न नृशंसमतिस्तथा धर्म धर्मभृतां श्रेष्ठा मुनयस्तत्त्वदर्शिन:

English

For the exhaustion of merit and demerit, Sankhya knowledge is ordained; at their exhaustion they see Brahman, the highest goal in the state of being."

हिन्दी अर्थ

यदा नेच्छति न देष्टि ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा

English

away a ram. Do thou, this very day, accomplish that which is for thy good. Let not this Death come to thee. Death drags its victims before their acts are accomplished. The acts of tomorrow should be done today, those of the afternoon in the forenoon. Death does not wait to see whether the acts of its victim have all been accomplished or not. Who knows that Death will not come to him even today? In prime of age one should betake oneself to the practice of virtue. Life is transitory. If virtue be practised, fame here and felicity hereafter will be the consequences. Overwhelmed by ignorance, one is ready to exert oneself for sons and wives. Achieving virtuous or vicious acts, one brings them up and aggrandises them. Like a tiger bearing away a sleeping deer, Death snatches away the man addicted to the gratification of desire and engaged in the enjoyment of sons and animals. Before he has been able to pluck the flowers upon which he has set his heart, before he has been gratified by the acquisition of the objects of his desire, Death bears him away like a tiger bearing away its prey. Death overpowers a man while the latter is stilt in the midst of the happiness that accrues from the gratification of desire, and while, still thinking, 'This has been done; this is to be done; this has been half-done.' Death bears away the man, however designated according to his

हिन्दी अर्थ

सत्त्वमिच्छसि संतोषाच्छान्तिलक्षणमुत्तमम्

English

[Yudhishthira said:] "This craving that arises from wealth: how, grandsire, shall we turn it back? For by craving we have been made to do sin."

हिन्दी अर्थ

करनेवाला है, जैसे गरम जल चावलको गला देता है षड््भिल॑क्षणवानेतै: समग्र: पुनरेष्यति

English

[Bhishma said:] "Here too they cite this ancient tale, sung by the king of Videha as he questioned Mandavya.

हिन्दी अर्थ

लक्षणोंसे युक्त मनुष्य पूर्णतः ज्ञानसे तृप्त हो मोक्ष प्राप्त कर लेता है

English

'I live very happily, for I have nothing at all; when Mithila is on fire, nothing of mine is burnt.

हिन्दी अर्थ

सुकृत नामसे प्रसिद्ध ब्रह्मको प्राप्त हो जाता है, वह अक्षय सुखका भागी होता है यामयं लभते तुष्टिं सा न शक्‍्या55त्मनोडन्यथा

English

Riches, though abundant, are surely sorrow for those who know; and though not abundant, they ever bewilder the unwise.

हिन्दी अर्थ

यो ह्यास्ते ब्राह्मण:शिष्ट: स आत्मरतिरुच्यते

English

The pleasure of desire in the world and the great divine pleasure do not equal a sixteenth part of the pleasure of the end of craving.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्राह्मणं विषयाश्शलिष्टं जरामृत्यू न विन्दत: इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थाश्न शरीरस्थो5तिवर्तते

English

As the horn of a cow grows when she grows in due time, so craving grows as wealth grows.

हिन्दी अर्थ

पुनरावर्तनं नास्ति सम्प्राप्तस्थ परं पदम्

English

When anything is conceived with the sense of mine, all of it becomes torment and, at its loss, arises again.

हिन्दी अर्थ

वक्‍त्रा गुणवता शिष्य: श्राव्य: पूर्वमिदं महत् गुणवान् वक्ता पहले इस महत्त्वपूर्ण अध्यात्म-शास्त्रका श्रवण कराये

English

One should not follow desires; delight in desires is sorrow; having got wealth, one should use it, and avoid desire in dharma.

हिन्दी अर्थ

ब्रह्मभावकी प्राप्ति होती है कर्मणा मनसा वाचा ब्रद्म सम्पद्यते तदा

English

profession, attached to his field, his shop, or his home, before he has obtained the fruit of his acts. Death bears away the weak, the strong, the brave, the timid, the idiotic, and the learned, before any of these obtains the fruits of his acts. When death, decrepitude, disease, and sorrow arising from diverse causes, are all residing in thy body, how is it that thou livest as if thou art perfectly hale? As soon as a creature is born, Decrepitude and Death pursue him for (effecting) his destruction. All existent things, mobile and immobile, are affected by these two. The attachment which one feels for dwelling in villages and towns (in the midst of fellowmen) is said to be the very mouth of Death. The forest, on the other hand, is regarded as the fold within which the senses may be penned. This is declared by the Srutis. \ The attachment a person feels for dwelling in a village or town (in the midst of men) is like a cord that binds him effectually. They that are good break that cord and attain to emancipation, while they that are wicked do not succeed in breaking them. He who never injures living creatures by thought, word, or deed, is never injured by such agencies as are destructive of life and property. 2 Nothing can resist the messengers (Disease and Decrepitude) of Death when they advance except Truth which devours Untruth. In Truth is immortality. 3 For these reasons one should practise the vow of Truth; one should devote oneself to a union with Truth; one should accept Truth for one's Veda; and restraining one's senses, one should vanquish the Destroyer by Truth. Both Immortality and Death are planted in the body. One comes to Death through ignorance and loss of judgment; while Immortality is achieved through Truth. I shall, therefore, abstain from injury and seek to achieve Truth, and transgressing the sway of desire and wrath, regard pleasure and pain with an equal eye, and attaining tranquillity, avoid Death like an immortal. Upon the advent of that season when the sun will progress towards the north, I shall restraining my senses, set to the performance of the Santa-sacrifice, the fira/zraa-sacrifice, the Mind- sacrifice, and the Work-sacrifice. 4 How can one like me worship his Maker in animal-sacrifices involving cruelty, or sacrifices of the body, such as Pisachas only can perform and such as produce fruits that are transitory? 5 That person whose words, thoughts,

हिन्दी अर्थ

कामबन्धनमुक्तो हि ब्रह्मुभूयाय कल्पते

English

Having given up both truth and untruth, grief and joy, the dear and the undear, and having given up fear and fearlessness, one becomes perfectly calm and free of disease.

हिन्दी अर्थ

चन्द्रमाकी भाँति निर्मल होकर धैर्यपूर्वक कालकी प्रतीक्षा करता रहता है स शान्तिमाप्नोति न कामकाम:

English

That craving, hard for the ill-minded to give up, which does not age as one ages, the disease that ends in death: happiness is for one who gives up that craving.

हिन्दी अर्थ

दमस्योपनिषद् दानं दानस्योपनिषत् तपः

English

Seeing the conduct of the self, pure like the moon, free of disease, the righteous-souled gains fame, here and hereafter, happily.'

हिन्दी अर्थ

दानका सार है तपस्या सुखस्योपनिषत् स्वर्ग: स्वर्गस्योपनिषच्छम:

English

Hearing the king's words, the brahmana became glad; and honouring those words, Mandavya resorted to liberation."